Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Tenable shares drop on weak guidance

Shares in the cybersecurity exposure management firm Tenable Holdings Inc. dropped significantly in late trading after the cybersecurity company issued guidance below analysts’ estimates. For its first quarter that ended March 31, Tenable reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of 11 cents per share, up from six cents in the first quarter ...

New Flashpoint intelligence platform accelerates cross-functional risk mitigation and prevention

Business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint, officially EJ2 Communications Inc., today announced the release of Ignite, a new intelligence platform that accelerates cross-functional risk mitigation and prevention across cyberthreat intelligence, vulnerability management, national security and physical security teams. Introduced at the RSA 2023 Conference in San Francisco, Ignite combines Flashpoint’s intelligence with an integrated user experience to assist ...

New Huntress solution offers managed detection and response for Microsoft 365

Managed cybersecurity platform startup Huntress Labs Inc. today announced a new managed detection and response solution for Microsoft 365 that detects and responds to suspicious user activity, permission changes, anomalous access behavior and deviations from security best practices. Huntress MDR protection for Microsoft 365 includes constant monitoring by the Huntress security operations center with the ability to remediate ...

New OpenText Cloud Editions release streamlines experiences and security

Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. today announced a new version of its Cloud Editions customer experience management platform as part of its Project Titanium roadmap. Cloud Editions 23.2 is designed to enable customers to drive productivity and profitability further while streamlining experiences and security in a multicloud world. Introduced at OpenText World EMEA this week, CE 23.2 includes an ...

Akamai Brand Protect detects and disrupts phishing sites, fake stores and brand impersonations

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced the availability of a new solution that detects and disrupts phishing sites, fake stores and brand impersonations. Brand Protector allows organizations to retain and grow customer loyalty while minimizing loss, drops in productivity and bad customer feedback. Akamai Brand Protector inspects trillions of digital activities ...

Leading companies back new early-warning cybersecurity threat information platform

A group of operational technology cybersecurity leaders and critical infrastructure companies today launched a new open-source, vendor-agnostic technology platform for sharing anonymous early-warning threat information across industries with peers and governments. Called ETHOS, for Emerging THreat Open Sharing, the platform is designed to give critical industries a vendor-neutral option for information sharing to combat the increasing number ...

Anti-fraud collaboration platform startup FiVerity raises $4M

Anti-fraud collaboration platform startup FiVerity Inc. said today it has raised $4 million in new funding to expand its network of information providers and data while introducing advanced machine learning algorithms. Founded in 2017, FiVerity offers artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions that detect new and emerging forms of cyber fraud for financial institutions. The company’s platform ...

Dataminr AI cybersecurity offering provides actionable intelligence on real-time risks

Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence cybersecurity offering designed to deliver actionable intelligence on real-time risks and cyber-physical threats to corporate enterprises. Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk provides enterprises with a cross-functional product suite that enables chief information security officers and their teams to ...

3CX breach linked to software supply chain attack on third party

A successful breach of videoconferencing and business phone company 3CX Ltd. first reported last month was caused by a software supply chain attack on a third party, Google LLC’s Mandiant has revealed for the first time. The 3CX breach was first detected by customers about March 22 but only came to light a week later ...

Center for Internet Security and Google Cloud alliance aims to help public sector cybersecurity

The nonprofit Center for Internet Security Inc. today announced the launch of a new alliance to help advance security and resilience for the broader technology ecosystem, with an emphasis on the public sector. The CIS and Google Cloud Alliance seeks to address the problem wherein public sector organizations are particularly susceptible to cyberattacks because of their limited ...